Sunday, 22 June 2014

“An espresso coffee is what I miss most aboard the International Space Station.” We have repeatedly heard this comment from the Italian astronauts who for 13 years have been at times working in the International Space Station, and today their espresso wish is about to become reality. In fact, Argotec and Lavazza are working together with the Italian Space Agency (ISA) to actually bring the authentic Italian espresso onto the International Space Station. So in the Futura Mission — the second long-term mission of the Italian Space Agency aboard the Space Station — another Italian astronaut of the European Space Agency, Air Force Captain Samantha Cristoforetti, could not only be the first Italian woman to go into space, but also the first astronaut in history to drink an authentic Italian espresso in orbit.

Sunday, 8 June 2014

How do you survive in space if you're not Sandra Bullock? Floating space junk, lack of oxygen and a freezing cold, hostile environmnent depicted in the blockbuster movie 'Gravity', could freighten any future space traveler. Those problems can give a real headache for astronaut wannabes, but what about common people? What if an ultimate disaster comes, end of the world as some describe it, and we are forced to live in outer space? Don't panic, an emergency management degree program guide website has a solution for that.

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Plant and animal speciesbecome extinct1,000times fasterthanit didbefore the advent ofhumans, and the worldison the brink ofthe sixthgreatextinction, saysa new study.

The
researchers looked at the speed of extinction in the past and the
present, and concluded that in the past it was much smaller than
previously thought. Species of today are disappearing from the face of the Earth 10 times
faster than biologists believe, said study leader biologist Stuart Pim
from Duke University."We are on the verge of the sixth great extinction. Whether we can
avoid it or not depends solely on us ," said Pim. This work is
considered a key study by other experts who agree with his conclusion.

Pim study focused on speed rather than the number of species that disappear
and come to the annual number of extinctions, for a total of one
million. Pim 1995 discovered that the rate of extinction was 1 before
the arrival of people, but after his studies, he and colleagues have
concluded that it was 0.1.

Numerous factors influence the rapid extinction of species, but the first is loss of habitat. Plant and animal species are unable to find a new habitat due to human population expansion.

A
large part of the flora and fauna so far has been destroyed five times,
and those disappearances were almost always related to the impact of
large meteors. Approximately 66 million years ago such extinction wiped out the dinosaurs and three of the four species on Earth. 252 million years ago, mass extinction led to the disappearance of 90 percent of the world's plant and animal species.